Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida is a valid botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its circumscription can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being discussed.

Magnoliopsida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpermatophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 129 ka.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 2799 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2799 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2799 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 119 of 2799 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 503 of 2799 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 695 of 2799 occurrencesEocene — about 1054 of 2799 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 93 of 2799 occurrencesMiocene — about 291 of 2799 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 2799 occurrencesPleistocene — about 39 of 2799 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 7 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 34 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 38 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 35 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 68 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 45 occurrences89–83 Mya — about 31 occurrences83–77 Mya — about 44 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 79 occurrences71–65 Mya — about 309 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 432 occurrences59–53 Mya — about 392 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 442 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 188 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 177 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 81 occurrences30–24 Mya — about 52 occurrences24–18 Mya — about 52 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 195 occurrences12–5.9 Mya — about 47 occurrences5.9–0 Mya — about 48 occurrences113.2 Mya2.58 Mya178 Mya0 Mya

2,799 occurrences of Magnoliopsida on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

2,799 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

194 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 46.51°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 103.96°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 107.13°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 105.72°WFort Union — 45.53°N, 105.64°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WIguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WIguincha — 3.33°S, 79.06°WIguincha — 3.00°S, 79.00°WPedro Luro — 38.89°S, 62.10°WPedro Luro — 38.81°S, 62.19°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WPedro Luro — 38.90°S, 62.53°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMisoa — 10.88°N, 72.38°WMisoa — 9.89°N, 71.32°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSalamanca — 45.29°S, 67.04°WSalamanca — 45.40°S, 67.12°WSalamanca — 45.82°S, 69.03°WSalamanca — 43.55°S, 66.27°WSalamanca — 45.81°S, 69.06°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WSalamanca — 47.53°S, 68.17°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.86°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.81°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.94°N, 107.35°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.50°S, 66.50°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WMirador — 8.98°N, 73.00°WLos Cuervos — 4.90°N, 73.02°WLos Cuervos — 8.98°N, 73.00°WYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EArcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSagavanirktok — 69.79°N, 148.64°WSagavanirktok — 69.76°N, 148.79°WSagavanirktok — 69.82°N, 148.68°WChenque — 45.87°S, 67.58°WChenque — 45.27°S, 69.03°WLa Paz — 7.33°N, 73.33°WMauri — 17.07°S, 69.15°WAbu Roash — 30.99°N, 27.77°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EMirador — 11.00°N, 72.38°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°ECerro Bororó — 43.74°S, 67.25°WCerro Bororó — 43.67°S, 67.75°WCerro Bororó — 43.63°S, 67.72°W

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The named rock units Magnoliopsida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 170 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 497 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Magnoliopsida and its relatives

Eocene

Where Magnoliopsida and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 803 sites for Magnoliopsida, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

219 references

Each of the 2,799 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 207 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Magnoliopsida

Credit
Fanghong
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Magnoliopsida was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpermatophyta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cronquist et al. 1996